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Author : Piero Gleijeses
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469609681
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Visions of Freedom written by Piero Gleijeses and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
Author : Z. S. Strother
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pende written by Z. S. Strother and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavish illustrations feature both iconic and never-before-published Pende masterworks, selected to
Author : Herbert Cole
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874396320
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (963 download)
Download or read book Igbo written by Herbert Cole and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Igbo art is famous for its diversity, inventiveness, and aesthetic quality. This wide-ranging survey of art made by the 15 to 20 million Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria focuses on the 20th century but also takes a look at the extraordinary 9th- and 10th-century bce cast copper alloy and ceramic finds that influenced Igbo artworks created 20 centuries later. Ceremonial contexts and meanings are explained, covering art associated with individuals as well as communal works and ranging from personal decoration to architectural forms, from household objects to cult sculpture, title regalia, and public shrines. Many little-known objects are included alongside a generous sampling of the thousands of masks that are perhaps the quintessential forms of Igbo art.
Author : David Binkley
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874394043
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Kuba written by David Binkley and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -A fascinating and essential overview of the Kuba people and their art through fifty exemplary pieces This volume explores the intriguing sculpture and decorative art of the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Best known for their king figures (ndop), considered among the greatest sculptural achievements of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Kuba actually produced little freestanding sculpture. Instead, they focused on a variety of decorative works that indicated success and achievement, and initiation-related pieces such as masks. The first book dedicated exclusively to this subject, Kuba examines the tribe's artistic development from the seventeenth century through the turbulent colonial and post-colonial periods. The authors also explore the impact of Kuba beliefs on their art and discuss the pervasive concerns that inform the tribe's art-making. With fifty beautifully reproduced examples and an engaging, informative text, Kuba is a fascinating introduction to African art.
Author : Mary Nooter Roberts
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Luba written by Mary Nooter Roberts and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Luba people of Zaire.
Author : Matteo Grilli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030529118
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Visions of African Unity written by Matteo Grilli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays analyzes different iterations of African unity, exploring the political and cultural visions that informed projects aimed at African unification. It explores the cultural, economic and non-state aspects of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) as the principal institution dedicated to the cooperation of African states, from its establishment in 1963 to its transformation into the African Union (AU) in 2000, as well as how ideas of African unity shaped the Cold War and African liberation struggles. Bringing together contributors from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds across Africa, Europe and the US, this book investigates the ideological origins and historiography of Pan-African and unification projects, and considers how African intellectuals, leaders and populations engaged with these ideas.
Author : Babatunde Lawal
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874395873
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Yoruba written by Babatunde Lawal and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art features prominently in the culture of the Yoruba, a people numbering more than 25 million and subdivided into different kingdoms in Nigeria and adjacent regions. It both enriches life and is used to venerate and influence deities. This new book explores the archaeological and historical evidence that suggests that by the beginning of the second millennium, many Yoruba kingdoms had become major urban centers with highly developed economic, cultural, political, and religious institutions. Drawing on field observations, contextual analyses, oral sources, and published materials, this book offers insight into the poetics and dynamics of Yoruba art and the belief that the “beautiful” or “well-made” generates a special power that commands attention.
Author : Daniela Bognolo
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Lobi written by Daniela Bognolo and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume features a selection of masterpieces from the most
Author : Louis Perrois
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Punu written by Louis Perrois and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Punu art by a world authority on the aesthetics and use of ritual objects by the peoples of southern Gabon.
Author : Louis Perrois
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Fang written by Louis Perrois and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fang art is one of the most distinguished arts of Black Africa. Its masks, with their facial markings, abstract features and strong, elegant lines, were among the most influential in 20th century modern art. Fang figures, called Bieri, are renowned for their child-like proportions contrasted with a muscular, poised vigilance. Fang art also includes iron currency and other objects that exhibit the traditional African ability to making everyday functional objects things of artistic merit. Fang reviews these artifacts and their social, ritual or symbolic characters. Statuettes related to ancestors, dance masks of the various rites, insignia of power, headdresses and jewellery, decorated music instruments and everyday utensils, all have an amazingly varied aesthetic creativity, in harmony with their profuse world of beliefs and myths.
Author : Christraud Geary
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874395736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Bamum written by Christraud Geary and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, artists working for the royal court of Bamum, in Cameroon, created elaborate bead-covered thrones and stools, wooden sculptures, masks in human and animal form, architectural carvings, and fine objects in bronze, ivory, and clay. This book focuses on the history, iconography, and meaning of these royal arts and looks at Western collectors who were fascinated by King Ibrahim Njoya (ruled 1886/7 to 1931) and the splendor of the royal court. Visual and written sources--including testimony by King Njoya and his courtiers, and extensive archival records--cast light on the strategies of a monarch who allowed visitors to acquire these arts to enhance the kingdom's reputation in distant Europe. The history of Bamum arts thus offers unique perspectives on African creativity and ingenuity, and European ways of collecting.
Author : Carol Beckwith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426204241
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Faces of Africa written by Carol Beckwith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of full-color photographs from across Africa, covering topics including sense of place, the joy of being, inner journeys, patterns of beauty, rhythm from within, and capacity to endure.
Author : Joshua Brown
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877228486
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (284 download)
Download or read book History from South Africa written by Joshua Brown and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More starkly than any other contemporary social conflict, the crisis in South Africa highlights the complexities and conflicts in race, gender, class, and nation. These original articles, most of which were written by South African authors, are from a special issue of the Radical History Review, published in Spring 1990, that mapped the development of interpretations of the South African past that depart radically from the official history. The articles range from the politics of black movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to studies of film, television, and theater as reflections of modern social conflict. History from South Africa is presented in two main sections: discussions of the historiography of South Africa from the viewpoint of those rewriting it with a radical outlook; and investigations into popular history and popular culture—the production and reception of history in the public realm. In addition, two photo essays dramatize this history visually; maps and a chronology complete the presentation. The book provides a fresh look at major issues in South African social and labor history and popular culture, and focuses on the role of historians in creating and interacting with a popular movement of resistance and social change.
Author : Marie Yvonne Curtis
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874398201
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Baga written by Marie Yvonne Curtis and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th volume in the successful reference Visions of Africa series, Baga introduces the art and traditions of this small rice-growing community living along the coast of Guinea in West Africa. Their extraordinary sculptures, wooden masks, and statues of various sizes as well as wonderful percussion instruments, chiefs' seats, and other skillfully carved utilitarian objects are presented in superb photographs. The relationships of these works to the culture and traditions of the Baga people--manifestation of divinities, ancestor worship, rites of passage, secret brotherhoods, and weddings, funerals, and harvesting--is brilliantly investigated by the author, who also analyzes the influence of colonization and newly introduced religions on more recent practices.
Author : Giovanni Carbone
Publisher : Ledizioni
ISBN 13 : 8867058274
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)
Download or read book A Vision of Africa's Future written by Giovanni Carbone and published by Ledizioni. This book was released on 2018 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is a fast-changing continent and an area of rising global relevance, where major transformation processes are currently underway, from demographic expansion to economic development, from social progress to environmental challenges, from technological innovation to continental integration, from political change to migratory pressures. How will these complex transformations shape the Africa of tomorrow? This Report sets out a vision for Africa’s future based on five key traits: an archipelago of heterogeneous growth trajectories; the revolutionary impact of technological leapfrogging; regional integration and the growing role of sub-regional processes; the clustering of instability mainly around the core of the region; and the migration movements that originate from – but also predominantly remain within – the African continent.
Author : John Henrik Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781574780475
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa written by John Henrik Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Random House, 1974.
Author : Francis M. Deng
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815723691
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (236 download)
Download or read book War of Visions written by Francis M. Deng and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and are identified in racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious terms. The identity question related to how such concepts determine or influence participation and distribution in the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the country. War of Visions aims at shedding light on the anomalies of the identity conflict. The competing models in the Sudan are the Arab-Islamic mold of the North, representing two-thirds of the country in territory and population, and the remaining Southern third, which is indigenously African in race, ethnicity, culture, and religion, with an educated Christianized elite. But although the North is popularly defined as racially Arab, the people are a hybrid of Arab and African elements, with the African physical characteristics predominating in most tribal groups. This configuration is the result of a historical process that stratified races, cultures, and religions, and fostered a "passing" into the Arab-Islamic mold that discriminated against the African race and cultures. The outcome of this process is a polarization that is based more on myth than on the realities of the situation. The identity crisis has been further complicated by the fact that Northerners want to fashion the country on the basis of their Arab- Islamic identity, while the South is decidedly resistant. Francis Deng presents three alternative approaches to the identity crisis. First, he argues that by bringing to the surface the realities of the African elements of identity in the North-- thereby revealing characteristics shared by all Sudanese--a new basis for the creation of a common identity could be established that fosters equitable
